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MABLE03
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Saddam video on You Tube
We asked who would distribute the inevitable Saddam Hussein execution video, and the answer was the same as for every other question in 2006: You. We won't bother posting the clip here, but your friendly neighborhood YouTube has dozens of duplicates available for your Faces of Death viewing pleasure. So presented with this huge gift of a news story during the holiday dead zone, how did media outlets finesse the grisly, standards-and-practices-breaking problem of airing an execution?
Supposedly taken by a cell phone, the grainy shaky-cam footage -- a charming supplement to the more sanitized government version -- doesn't look like it was taken all that surreptitiously, but an Iraqi investigation into who shot it has been launched all the same. Like most print outlets, the New York Times reported on the Story of the Video angle once and again; no networks dared air the full clip, though Fox was the first to air portions of it on Saturday. Such niceties were not observed online, with Fox showing the full video (up to and including the close-up of Saddam's broken neck), while CNN.com stopped with the placing of the noose. Everyone who showed the cellcam clip claimed they did so because of the journalistic value of the accompanying audio, which recorded the various taunts and shouts between Saddam and his guards. Hooray for context.
Message edited 1/2/2007 12:27:40 PM.
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
It was bound to be available sooner or later.
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| Posted 1/2/07 12:29 PM |
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Lisa
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I saw it and it is pretty shaky but you can really see the whole thing. Pretty disturbing, even though the man deserved what he got.
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| Posted 1/2/07 12:30 PM |
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TreAnt427
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I started to watch it and then changed my mind when it started.
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| Posted 1/2/07 12:31 PM |
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Eleanor
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I had no desire to watch the American have his head chopped off - and no desire to watch saddam (or anyone) die.
I understand that having video is important as he had dozens of stand-ins and who knows what people would come up with in years to come
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| Posted 1/2/07 3:52 PM |
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Nicole728
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I watched it on another website...its very poor quality, I believe it was a cell phone...but you see him drop and all H#$$ breaks loose.
NO biggie, he got what he deserved
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| Posted 1/2/07 4:31 PM |
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LightUpOurLife
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I have no desire to see it, my DH and my mom both want to see it.
Everyone is their own person, that is what makes the world go round. 
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| Posted 1/2/07 4:36 PM |
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HoneyBadger
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
Posted by MrsDiamondgrlie
It was bound to be available sooner or later.
I was thinking the same thing...
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| Posted 1/2/07 4:37 PM |
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LittleBlueBug
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I saw that ebaumsworld.com had it, but I could not bare to watch it all the way through. DH wanted to see it, I had to look away. He was a horrible man, but I don't like to watch people die.
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| Posted 1/2/07 5:06 PM |
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johnsae
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I watched it and was p*ssed it wasn't better quality. I wanted to see that motherf*cker die. (sorry, I got morbid and angry when it comes to this issue)
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| Posted 1/2/07 5:20 PM |
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BaroqueMama
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
Watching someone die is not something I feel I need to see. No matter who it is.
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| Posted 1/2/07 5:22 PM |
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alnem
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
Posted by Lisa
I saw it and it is pretty shaky but you can really see the whole thing. Pretty disturbing, even though the man deserved what he got.
agreed. just watched it today.
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| Posted 1/2/07 6:55 PM |
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Shroggie
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
Posted by alnem
Posted by Lisa
I saw it and it is pretty shaky but you can really see the whole thing. Pretty disturbing, even though the man deserved what he got.
agreed. just watched it today.
same here. my dad wanted to see it and doesnt know how to use a computer so i just watched it with him.
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| Posted 1/2/07 6:56 PM |
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Kate
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
I just watched it and it wasn't as graphic as I thought it would be. You can't see his neck snap, you just see him fall.
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| Posted 1/2/07 7:07 PM |
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MrsT
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
Posted by Kate
I just watched it and it wasn't as graphic as I thought it would be. You can't see his neck snap, you just see him fall.
I have not watched the clip but this was a topic at work today over lunch. Apparently his neck did not snap but rather he suffocated when he was hanged.
I just do not hink I can stomach watching anyone being hanged.
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| Posted 1/2/07 8:11 PM |
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Stefanie
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Re: Saddam video on You Tube
It's a horrible video. It's dark and the camera is shaking. You can't see a thing.
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| Posted 1/2/07 8:57 PM |
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